LACUNA VR
This video documents a guided walkthrough of LACUNA, a multi-disciplinary virtual reality art installation that bridges the past, present, and future; the material and the digital; the personal and the collective.
Built on the open-source VR platform Mozilla Hubs, LACUNA unfolds as a rhizomatic environment shaped by relationships between family, ancestry, and cultural community. The project brings together six artists based in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Suriname, and the Netherlands, connected through the shared yet fractured legacy of South Asian indenture in the Caribbean and the enduring structures of European colonialism and capitalism in the Americas.
As artists emerging from racially and ethnically intermixed cultures, the work moves through histories of survival, rupture, and inherited silence. Drawing on Dionne Brand’s writing in A Map to the Door of No Return, LACUNA engages the doorway as both metaphor and method — a threshold into spaces that resist language, where memory, gesture, and embodiment hold what history cannot fully record.
The virtual world of LACUNA offers a series of portals into liminal, speculative spaces: gaps in the archive, places of absence and possibility. This walkthrough includes the participating artists moving through the installation together and discussing the work, offering insight into their individual practices, shared histories, and the collaborative process behind the project.